“Seeing an obvious and apparent need in the market, speaker, HR and culture advisor and DEI consultant Madison Butler decided to curate a platform to make it easier to source Black speakers. “I started [Black Speakers Collection] on accident! I was tired of hearing about how companies, conferences and events couldn’t find Black speakers and then only chose us to speak about topics like race,” Butler shared in an email. “I posted a LinkedIn post highlighting the fact that Black speakers speak on all topics and invited Black Speakers to share their info. I realized that this was beautiful data and knew it would be a loss if we wasted it. We originally had 28 speakers and have grown to 1,100 in under four weeks.”"

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